Topic started by Kathir (@ cache1-2.ruh.isu.net.sa) on Sun Jun 20 14:42:12 EDT 2004.
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Some of the goings on in this forum were really upsetting. I wasn't following it closely and yet feel there is something severely wrong. I request everyone of you.. especially, the youngsters to have patience to read this:

In India, there were days when every cinema theatre played National Anthem at the end of every show. When a portion of audience started walking out without having patience to wait until it was finished.. Government of India chose the easy way out.. the practice of playing national anthem in theaters was stopped. When school syllabus became bulkier, the importance to moral education session was stopped. In the end, we seem to be losing our patriotism and the feeling of oneness. I heard that, India was divided into 400 provinces before Valbbhai Patel united them to seek independence as a single entity.

Today, we are all easily getting divided by every kind of identity.. regions, religions, languages and what not.. In the end, will we all go back to the 400? Have we all exhausted all our tolerances?

I recall a Tamil poem I wrote some months ago.. here's its not-so-good translation. it exemplifies our sad state today.


Oh God
--------

Here and there hang
a hundred curtains..
colorful or grey.
Borders like wrinkles
run criss-cross on
our tiny fields..
walls of all kinds
surround every thing..
barriers made of
wood, stones and
barbed wires..
fences too in
steel or green..
people lay divided
inside and out..
do not laugh, Oh God..
they can\t be blamed.
for aren't YOU the one
who shaped every heart
into chambers of four?

µ, ¸¼×§Ç !
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Responses:

• From: Cygnus (@ pool-68-163-4-51.phil.east.verizon.net) on: Sun Jun 20 15:46:11 EDT 2004
  
  Kathir, I salute your initiative to shatter divisive barbarianism. Silent spectators abound in this forum who would think that even dignifying the cowardice of the perpertrators by starting a discussion such as this one, would be a success for the schemers. I for one have become inured to these acts and feel very dehumanized. I have no answers or solutions, just expressing my sadness and incapacitation.
  
  
• From: tiruttakkan (@ 210.212.92.100) on: Sun Jun 20 23:34:47 EDT 2004
  
  kathir,
  
  YES!YOU SAID IT!!!
  
  tiruttakkan
  
  
• From: Pavalamani Pragasam (@ 220.226.25.50) on: Mon Jun 21 05:06:19 EDT 2004
  
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• From: k.sudhakar(srimangai) (@ cosiapat1.net.americas.agilent.com) on: Mon Jun 21 06:41:34 EDT 2004
  
  Kathir,
  Thanks for expressing. It is the voice of all those who want sincere and healthy discussions to happen in the forum. You have stood up and said what is to be conveyed.
  Congrats for being expressive.
  with regards
  Srimangai
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.159) on: Tue Jun 22 02:06:30 EDT 2004
  
  :-(
  
  Á¾Á¡üÈí¸Ùì¸¡É ¸¡Ã½õ ±ÉìÌ þô§À¡Ð¾¡ý Ò⸢ÈÐ... À¢È Á¾ò¾Å÷¸û ¸¡Ã½õ þø¨Ä... «ó¾ó¾ Á¾ò¾Å§Ã¾¡ý §À¡Öõ.
  
  :-(
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-202-195.now-india.net.in) on: Tue Jun 22 02:44:44 EDT 2004
  
  Very sad scenario indeed. Thx kathir, for putting it in writing.
  
  I wish ppl change. As rightly depicted by a great tamizh song..
  
  "¬Ê «¼íÌõ Å¡ú¨¸Â¼¡
  ¬ÈÊ ¿¢Ä§Á ¦º¡ó¾Á¼¡"
  
  What do we possess? what is rightfully ours?
  All but dwindles into decaying mass.
  And when we reach the finale, there is no caste, creed, nationality or race
  
  
• From: malligai (@ 61.11.45.137) on: Wed Jun 23 03:51:26 EDT 2004
  
  Kathir,
  
  ur concern is touching and true...barriers and walls everywhere we can see...mmm...'divided we fall' seems to be long forgotten...
  
  [ apadaa something i can read atlast...
  
  :) :) ]
  
  

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